Hello,
Just parted w/ my beloved Mint 10 on my 12" laptop (dual-boot w/ WinXP) and making a home with LMDE XFCE 32bit.
Did all the repo pointings, 686-pae, etc and with gpointing-device-settings installed.
Problem: functional touchpad but nothing beyond basic navigation.
What I did in the terminal:
synclient -l
synclient TapButton1=1
synclient VertEdgeScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient RBCornerButton=3
All went well, but these settings would disappear after reboot/logout.
Ran gpointing-device-settings, tap wasn't fxtn'l, but scroll worked; same, after reboot/logout all settings disappeared.
Searched for a long while, then finally located the file "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf"
Then I did the following, step by step:
0. temporarily added myself to root group (turned out to be unnecessary) http://forums.linuxmint.com/posting.php?mode=post&f=191#
1. created a new xorg.conf.d folder in /etc/X11
2. paste the "50-synaptics.conf" into said folder
3. gedit into said .conf the following:
option "TapButton1" "1"
option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
option "RBCornerButton" "3"
All is well and w/ 2 xtra functionalities (beyond Mint 10's): horizontal scrolling and tap-corner-as-rt-button.http://forums.linuxmint.com/posting.php?mode=post&f=191#
Touchpad finally working beyond basics-LMDX
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Touchpad finally working beyond basics-LMDX
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Re: Touchpad finally working beyond basics-LMDX
could you include a copy of final 50-synaptics.conf file please.
did you leave rights to this file and folder set at root?
thanks
TF
did you leave rights to this file and folder set at root?
thanks
TF
Re: Touchpad finally working beyond basics-LMDX
Here you go:
**********************************************partially from default 50-syn.......
# Option "OptionName" "value"
#
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Option "RBCornerButton" "3"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
**************************************************
As for the rights, all I did was copy&paste (I'd assume that the original rights were carried over).
**********************************************partially from default 50-syn.......
# Option "OptionName" "value"
#
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Option "RBCornerButton" "3"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
**************************************************
As for the rights, all I did was copy&paste (I'd assume that the original rights were carried over).